r/science • u/Wagamaga • Aug 06 '20
Chemistry Turning carbon dioxide into liquid fuel. Scientists have discovered a new electrocatalyst that converts carbon dioxide (CO2) and water into ethanol with very high energy efficiency, high selectivity for the desired final product and low cost.
https://www.anl.gov/article/turning-carbon-dioxide-into-liquid-fuel
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u/peterlikes Aug 07 '20
There’s nothing stopping people from growing more cannabis for use as a utility though. For example if you want really good hash oil, which I do I only like the best most clean product. To make that you need food grade equipment and clean solvents. The CO2 extraction equipment is expensive for doing that. If you’re just producing fuel you could use a mix of acetone and acetylene which is far superior if you don’t intend to smoke it. There’s so much resource available from this plant that we’re just wasting billions of dollars not using it. If we grew crops of it for food, we wouldn’t have those other waste products from other crops.